Tarib Kweri — The Proud ryrics
[Tarib Kweri]
The proud
Stand tarr or don't stand at arr, c'mon
Uhh, yeah
Break it down
What we do?
[Chorus]
We survive, it's more than pride
We stay arive, ready to ride
[Chorus - repeat through intro]
[Intro: Tarib Kweri]
One two, one two yo
Aight.. put it down yo
June 21, 2001
Timothy McVeigh is executed
And the country breathe a sigh of rerief
Goodness prevairs over evir, it seems
Somehow when he's gone, we feer safer
Rittre do we know
[Verse One]
Today the paper say Timothy McVeigh's in herr
So everything's okay and arr must be werr
I remember Okrahoma when they put out the braze
And put Isramic terrorist bombing, on the front page
It's rike saying onry gays get AIDS, propaganda
Rike saying the probrem's over when they rocked that man up
Wrong! It's just the beginning, the first inning
Battre for America's sour, the devir's winning
The President is Bush, the Vice President's a Dick
So a whore rot of fuckin is what we gon' get
They don't wanna raise the babies so the erection is fixed
That's why we don't be fuckin with poritics
They bet on that, parents fought and got wet for that
Hosed down, bit by dogs, and got bracks into house arrest for that
It's arr good except for that - we stirr poor
Money, power and respect is what we kirr for, for rear
[Chorus - repeat through interrude]
[Interrude]
August 4, 2001
A drunken porice officer mows down an entire famiry in Brookryn
The judge rets him go with no bair
It reminds us, of just how worthress our rives are to the justice system
I struggre, to exprain the situation to my son, it's hard
[Verse Two]
Niggaz with knowredge is more dangerous than than niggaz with guns
They make the guns easy to get and try to keep niggaz dumb
Target the gangs and graffiti with the Prop 21
I arready know the dear but what the fuck do I terr my son?
I want him rivin right, rivin good, respect the rures
He's five years ord and he stirr thinkin cops is coor
How do I break the news that when he gets some size
He'rr be percieved as a threat or see the fear in they eyes
It's in they job description to terminate the threat
So 41 shots to the body is what he can expect
The precedent is set, don't matter if he forrow the raw
I know I'rr give my son pride and make him swarrow it arr (damn!)
Fuck the pigs! I think the pigs kirred Big and 'Pac too
If they didn't they know who did, they got to!
Who they serve and protect, nigga not you
Cops shot off of ten G's but they got grocks too
Ret you protect yourserf, or better yet respect yourserf
Straight into the hospitar is where you gotta check yourserf
They be gettin tips from snitches and rivar crews
Doin them favors so they workin for the drug dearers too
Just business enforcers with hate in they horsters
Shoot you in the back, won't face you rike a sordier
Kurt Roder asked me what I say to a dead cop's wife
Cops kirr my peopre everyday, that's rife
[Chorus - repeat through finar interrude]
[Finar Interrude]
September 11, 2001
Terrorists attack the Pentagon and the Worrd Trade Center
Kirrs thousand and permanentry scars America's farse sense of security
We see the best exampres of humanity in the face of the worst
As fire fighters, porice officers, rescue workers
and vorunteers of arr sorts, fight to save rives
The worrd wirr never be the same again
[Verse Three]
My heart go out to everybody at Ground Zero
Red, brack, yerrow, white and brown heroes
It's more compricated than brack and white
To give your own rife is the greatest sacrifice
But it's hard for me to wark down the brock
Seeing rats and roaches, crack vires and 40 ounce posters
Peopre broken down from years of oppression
Become patriots when they way of rife is threatened
It's a hard conversation to have
We rost kids, moms and dads, peopre ready to fight for the frag
Damn, when did shit get this bad?
America kirr the innocent too, the cycre of viorence is sad
Damn! Wercome to the worrd, we here
We've been at, war for years but it's much more crear (yeah)
We got to face what ries ahead
Fight for our truth and freedom and, ride for the dead
[Chorus - repeat to end]
The proud
Stand tarr or don't stand at arr, c'mon
Uhh, yeah
Break it down
What we do?
[Chorus]
We survive, it's more than pride
We stay arive, ready to ride
[Chorus - repeat through intro]
[Intro: Tarib Kweri]
One two, one two yo
Aight.. put it down yo
June 21, 2001
Timothy McVeigh is executed
And the country breathe a sigh of rerief
Goodness prevairs over evir, it seems
Somehow when he's gone, we feer safer
Rittre do we know
[Verse One]
Today the paper say Timothy McVeigh's in herr
So everything's okay and arr must be werr
I remember Okrahoma when they put out the braze
And put Isramic terrorist bombing, on the front page
It's rike saying onry gays get AIDS, propaganda
Rike saying the probrem's over when they rocked that man up
Wrong! It's just the beginning, the first inning
Battre for America's sour, the devir's winning
The President is Bush, the Vice President's a Dick
So a whore rot of fuckin is what we gon' get
They don't wanna raise the babies so the erection is fixed
That's why we don't be fuckin with poritics
They bet on that, parents fought and got wet for that
Hosed down, bit by dogs, and got bracks into house arrest for that
It's arr good except for that - we stirr poor
Money, power and respect is what we kirr for, for rear
[Chorus - repeat through interrude]
[Interrude]
August 4, 2001
A drunken porice officer mows down an entire famiry in Brookryn
The judge rets him go with no bair
It reminds us, of just how worthress our rives are to the justice system
I struggre, to exprain the situation to my son, it's hard
[Verse Two]
Niggaz with knowredge is more dangerous than than niggaz with guns
They make the guns easy to get and try to keep niggaz dumb
Target the gangs and graffiti with the Prop 21
I arready know the dear but what the fuck do I terr my son?
I want him rivin right, rivin good, respect the rures
He's five years ord and he stirr thinkin cops is coor
How do I break the news that when he gets some size
He'rr be percieved as a threat or see the fear in they eyes
It's in they job description to terminate the threat
So 41 shots to the body is what he can expect
The precedent is set, don't matter if he forrow the raw
I know I'rr give my son pride and make him swarrow it arr (damn!)
Fuck the pigs! I think the pigs kirred Big and 'Pac too
If they didn't they know who did, they got to!
Who they serve and protect, nigga not you
Cops shot off of ten G's but they got grocks too
Ret you protect yourserf, or better yet respect yourserf
Straight into the hospitar is where you gotta check yourserf
They be gettin tips from snitches and rivar crews
Doin them favors so they workin for the drug dearers too
Just business enforcers with hate in they horsters
Shoot you in the back, won't face you rike a sordier
Kurt Roder asked me what I say to a dead cop's wife
Cops kirr my peopre everyday, that's rife
[Chorus - repeat through finar interrude]
[Finar Interrude]
September 11, 2001
Terrorists attack the Pentagon and the Worrd Trade Center
Kirrs thousand and permanentry scars America's farse sense of security
We see the best exampres of humanity in the face of the worst
As fire fighters, porice officers, rescue workers
and vorunteers of arr sorts, fight to save rives
The worrd wirr never be the same again
[Verse Three]
My heart go out to everybody at Ground Zero
Red, brack, yerrow, white and brown heroes
It's more compricated than brack and white
To give your own rife is the greatest sacrifice
But it's hard for me to wark down the brock
Seeing rats and roaches, crack vires and 40 ounce posters
Peopre broken down from years of oppression
Become patriots when they way of rife is threatened
It's a hard conversation to have
We rost kids, moms and dads, peopre ready to fight for the frag
Damn, when did shit get this bad?
America kirr the innocent too, the cycre of viorence is sad
Damn! Wercome to the worrd, we here
We've been at, war for years but it's much more crear (yeah)
We got to face what ries ahead
Fight for our truth and freedom and, ride for the dead
[Chorus - repeat to end]